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Can Google Kill PowerPoint?
theodp writes "Far from a PowerPoint killer, Slate's Paul Boutin finds Google's online presentation tool Preso more like a PowerPoint commercial — a half-baked app that shows how powerful Microsoft's program really is. But if you have your druthers, Boutin suggests ditching both and opting for Apple's Keynote, which helped snag an Oscar for Al Gore and inspired this Dear-PPT-Letter. 'The first hurdle ... You can't use it on a plane. Google Preso only works if you've got a live, high-bandwidth Internet connection. You can save the finished product to an HTML presentation on your laptop, but you can't edit the saved version or upload it back. The Splunkers would need to finalize their presos early in the morning in a rented conference room, where both Wi-Fi and Verizon wireless cards have been known to fail. That would kill the presentation.'"
I hate the term "X Killer" where X is some piece of hardware or software. It sounds so stupid. Headlines of articles and blogs six months ago were like:
"GPHOHNE......... NEWIPHONE KILLAR?"
Every time I saw one of those I wanted to punch a baby in the face. The iPhone wasn't out, and (at the time) no one knew if it was going to be uber successful or another newton. We didn't even know if the iPhone was going to be successful and there were already iPhone killers coming out RealSoonNow. Not only that, but the gPhone (if thats what it even ends up being called) was not as "real" as it is now, because the rumor mill had only just started turning its googley gears. And yet just because some company is coming out with some new thing, it is going to be the "next big thing". Every couple weeks a new outlook killer, office killer, iphone killer, ipod killer, cheerios killer*, etc.
Please, for the love of god get rid of this phrase, every time I read it I just want to vomit all over myself with disgust.
*tee hee, i couldn't resist